| 词汇 | denigrating |
| 释义 | denigrating present participle ofdenigrate denigrate verb[ T ] uk /ˈden.ɪ.ɡreɪt/ us /ˈden.ə.ɡreɪt/ to say that someone or something is not good or important: 贬低，诋毁 You shouldn't denigrate people just because they have different beliefs from you.你不要只是因为信仰不同而贬低他人。 Synonym defameformal Compare libelnoun slanderverb Treating as unimportant blow blow something/someone off brush brush someone/something aside chopped liver damn denigrate denigration laugh leave something at the dooridiom look down on someone minoritize never on the front burneridiom shrug something off skate over/around something sniff at something sweep something aside talk something down wave Related worddenigration Examples of denigratingdenigrating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Such denigrating labelling had arisen in the context of political wrangling over power and authority. Low scores were characterized by apathetic, indifferent, irritable, sarcastic, or denigrating behavior toward the child. His phallocentric theory legitimizes the disempowerment of those who have a socially inferior status, by denigrating their demands for equality and emancipation. What they don't understand is if you dictate this and make it official, it will have some very denigrating effects on other languages. They also reintroduced denigrating rhetoric. Wanjau, in reply, accused the revivalists of denigrating church sacraments. I do not think we serve any great purpose by denigrating the oil company at the present time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, we do ourselves very little service by denigrating, and sometimes making use of slogans, about what the oil company has or has not done. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 So do not think that this is some denigrating comment by the scientific lobby and some nasty, cheap debunking exercise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not, most emphatically not, denigrating the achievements of polytechnics. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There appears to be a pernicious growth industry of denigrating the police and undermining the rule of law. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My fear is that, somehow, we are denigrating the task of the technologists. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It rather reflected the national mood of "knocking" and denigrating nearly all our established institutions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They tried their usual trick of denigrating the achievements of people in the health service. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is what he says, and he certainly had no reason for denigrating his colleagues, or himself, for that matter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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